Kushal Das and Swapan Chaudhuri perform North Indian music on sitar and tabla this afternoon. Both are internationally known musicians. Sponsored by Kalakendra at the First Congressional Church 1126 SW Park. 4PM $20/15 students
Chris Kraus reads from a new fiction work, The Summer of Hate, this afternoon at YU. It is part of a program surrounding the photographs of Marianne Wex showing there. Her reading is of a fiction book, but Kraus is also a filmmaker, teaches in the art world, and is an editor of Semiotext(e). Her sharp witted criticism is captured in this quote from her Where Art Belongs: "there was absolutely no chance of developing an art career in Los Angeles without attending one of several high-profile MFA studio programs,"... "essential to the development of value in the by-nature elusive parameters of neoconceptual art. Without it, who would know which Cibachrome photos of urban signage, which videotapes of socks tossing around a dryer, which neominimalist monochrome paintings are negligible, and which are destined to be art?". Her event is sponsored by Reed's Cooley Gallery and is sure to be entertaining. Just a note, the Semiotext(e) website may be infected with malware, ironic. At YU Contemporary yucontemporary.org/chris-kraus 800 SE 10th. 3PM Free
